Editing World Opponent Network (section)

== Legacy ==
While some of the WON-enabled titles moved to other online platforms after WON (see the list of WON-enabled games below), most of the 100 or so titles (depending on how you count expansions and Hoyle titles) have been offline since their official WON servers were shut down. A few independent efforts, however, have been made to bring some of the abandoned titles back online.

=== WON2 ===
WON2 (formerly No-WON and PlanetWON2.com) is a [[free software|non-commercial]] but [[closed-source]] project started by the Steamless CS Project Team in 2003.{{r|steamless about}} WON2 supports, primarily, pre-Steam versions of ''Half-Life'' and its mods.{{r|won2 jaskiewicz}}{{r|won2 3dgamers}} WON2 was born out of a dislike for how games were running on Steam versus WON.{{r|won2 ucg}} Even though the project began with a "Steamless" port of ''Counter-Strike'' 1.6, it appears to have lasted this long because Steam forces ''Counter-Strike'' players to run version 1.6 when many fans felt that version 1.5 was better.{{r|valve eol gs}}{{r|won2 heutte}} For example, of the 60 [https://won2.net/Browse-Servers/ current servers online] (April 2023), 56 of them are running ''Counter-Strike'' 1.5 (3 running ''Half-Life'' and 1 running ''Team Fortress'').

While WON2 has a stated goal of also "focusing on other former WON games" (besides ''Half-Life'') the only other game known to have received some attention by the project team is ''Silencer'', but it was never launched.{{r|steamless about}} WON2 claims to have reached its peak popularity between 2005 and 2010 with more than 1,000 servers and up to 10,000 players at a time.{{r|steamless about}} As of April 2023, WON2 is still operational with around 400 hundred players during peak hours, and the majority of the servers hosted in China.{{r|won2 stats}} While most of the WON2 and Steamless CS Project websites are still active, the forum for the project has been down since at least August 2016.{{r|steamless forum 2016}}

A side project to WON2 is called "Counter-Strike Beta 6.1" which uses WON2 assets to run even earlier versions of ''Counter-Strike''.{{r|csbeta about}} As of April 2023, 11 servers for beta 6.1 and 1 server for beta 5.2 were online.{{r|csbeta servers}}

=== NeuWon and NuWON ===
NuWON.Net (formerly NeuWon.com, 2014-2018) is another non-commercial but closed-source project meant to revive WON multiplayer gaming. The goal of NuWON is to support all former WON titles and not just the ''Half-Life'' family. In 2014, NeuWon sprung from a 2012 WON project on [[Google Code]] by a member of same team that created WON2, the Steamless CS Project Team.{{r|neuwon gcode}}{{r|neuwon new moddb}} NeuWon officially launched on March 13, 2016.{{r|neuwon launch moddb}}{{r|neuwon launch}} By May 2021, NuWON had listed 21 supported games (not counting ''Half-Life'' mods) plus an additional 8 that needed testing.{{r|nuwon games}} Though NuWON's site was temporarily unavailable starting in 2022, it has since reappeared as of April 9, 2025.<ref>https://nuwon.net/infusions/news/news.php?readmore=26</ref>

=== NeoEE ===
NeoEE sprung from the same 2012 WON project on Google Code that NeuWon did.{{r|neuwon gcode}} NeoEE released a server with a fully-working lobby in 2013.{{r|neoee about}} NeoEE supports ''[[Empire Earth (video game)|Empire Earth]]'' and its expansion, ''[[Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest|The Art of Conquest]]'' (AOC).